Development of nine new microsatellite loci for the American beaver, Castor canadensis (Rodentia: Castoridae), and cross-species amplification in the European beaver, Castor fiber.

abstract：:Sex-determining modes remain unknown in numerous species, notably in fishes, in which a variety of modalities have been reported. Additionally, noninvasive individual sexing is problematic for species without external sex attributes or for early life stages, requiring cytogenetic or molecular analyses when sex chromos...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Trenkel VM,Boudry P,Verrez-Bagnis V,Lorance P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce phylodyn, an r package for phylodynamic analysis based on gene genealogies. The package's main functionality is Bayesian nonparametric estimation of effective population size fluctuations over time. Our implementation includes several Markov chain Monte Carlo-based methods and an integrated nested Laplace...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Karcher MD,Palacios JA,Lan S,Minin VN

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding is a global initiative that provides a standardized and efficient tool to catalogue and inventory biodiversity, with significant conservation applications. Despite progress across taxonomic realms, globally threatened marine turtles remain underrepresented in this effort. To obtain DNA barcodes of marine...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Naro-Maciel E,Reid B,Fitzsimmons NN,LE M,Desalle R,Amato G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Alectoris partridges (Phasianidae), hybridization occurs occasionally as a result of the natural breakdown of isolating mechanisms but more frequently as a result of human activity. No genetic record of hybridization is known for the barbary partridge (A. barbara). This species is distributed mostly in North Af...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barbanera F,Guerrini M,Bertoncini F,Cappelli F,Muzzeddu M,Dini F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The construction of microsatellite-enriched libraries is an indispensable tool to search for molecular markers as complete genome sequences are still not available for the majority of species of interest. Numerous protocols are available in the literature for the construction of these libraries; however, sometimes the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Techen N,Arias RS,Glynn NC,Pan Z,Khan IA,Scheffler BE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the white-ruffed manakin Corapipo altera, a common understory bird of Neotropical lowland and montane evergreen forests from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. These markers were developed in order to assess population structure and genetic diversity in a fra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barnett JR,Stenzler LM,Ruiz-Gutierrez V,Bogdanowicz SM,Lovette IJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crepidula convexa, a calyptreid gastropod with direct embryonic development, changes sex from male to female in the course of its lifetime (protandry). Under sex-allocation theory, male reproductive success should be independent from age and size (a proxy used for age). However, this may be counterbalanced by female c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Daguin-Thiébaut C,LE Cam S,Viard F

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput identification technologies provide efficient tools for understanding the ecology and functioning of microorganisms. Yet, these methods have been only rarely used for monitoring and testing ecological hypotheses in plant pathogens and pests in spite of their immense importance in agriculture, forestry ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tedersoo L,Drenkhan R,Anslan S,Morales-Rodriguez C,Cleary M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-based specimen identification, known as DNA barcoding, is a common method complementing traditional morphology-based taxonomic assignments. The fundamental resource in DNA barcoding is the availability of a taxonomically reliable sequence database to use as a reference for sequence comparisons. Here, we provi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barco A,Raupach MJ,Laakmann S,Neumann H,Knebelsberger T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karyotypic changes in chromosome number and structure are drivers in the divergent evolution of diverse plant species and lineages. This study aimed to reveal the origins of the unique karyotype (2n = 12) and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Megadenia (Brassicaceae). A high-quality chromosome-scale genome was a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yang W,Zhang L,Mandáková T,Huang L,Li T,Jiang J,Yang Y,Lysak MA,Liu J,Hu Q

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how landscape features affect gene flow has implications for numerous fields including molecular and evolutionary ecology. Despite this, modelling landscape resistance surfaces has remained a significant challenge. The R package resistancega was developed to provide a framework for optimizing landscape r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Winiarski KJ,Peterman WE,McGarigal K

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germplasm collections provide an extremely valuable resource for breeders and researchers. However, misclassification of accessions by species often hinders the effective use of these collections. We propose that use of high-throughput genotyping tools can provide a fast, efficient and cost-effective way of confirming...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Mason AS,Zhang J,Tollenaere R,Vasquez Teuber P,Dalton-Morgan J,Hu L,Yan G,Edwards D,Redden R,Batley J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized 52 novel microsatellite markers from Florida largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides floridanus, for use in conservation, management and population genetic studies. Markers were assessed in M. s. floridanus from peninsular Florida (n = 30) and averaged eight alleles per locus with observed...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Lutz-Carrillo DJ,Hagen C,Dueck LA,Glenn TC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to facilitate the addition of a genetic component to conservation management plans for Georgia false indigo (Amorpha georgiana var. georgiana), a rare legume of the southeastern USA, 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed. No gametic disequilibrium was detected among locus pairs, but observation...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Straub SC,Bogdanowicz SM,Doyle JJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stylosanthes capitata is an important tropical pasture legume. Knowledge of genetic diversity and structure of S. capitata populations is of great importance for the conservation and germplasm management of this species. Thus, eight microsatellite markers were developed from an S. capitata-enriched library. They were ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Santos MO,Sassaki RP,Chiari L,Resende RM,DE Souza AP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become the marker of choice for genetic studies in organisms of conservation, commercial or biological interest. Most SNP discovery projects in nonmodel organisms apply a strategy for identifying putative SNPs based on filtering rules that account for random sequencing error...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Gonçalves da Silva A,Barendse W,Kijas JW,Barris WC,McWilliam S,Bunch RJ,McCullough R,Harrison B,Hoelzel AR,England PR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents the public availability of (i) microbiomes in diet and gut of larvae from the dipteran Dilophus febrilis using massive parallel sequencing, (ii) SNP and SSR discovery and characterization in the transcriptome of the Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus, L) and (iii) assembled transcriptome for an...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Genomic Resources Development Consortium.,Álvarez P,Arthofer W,Coelho MM,Conklin D,Estonba A,Grosso AR,Helyar SJ,Langa J,Machado MP,Montes I,Pinho J,Rief A,Schartl M,Schlick-Steiner BC,Seeber J,Steiner FM,Vilas C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents the public availability of raw transcriptome sequence data and 63,020 SNPs for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Genomic Resources Development Consortium.,Coltman DW,Davis CS,Lunn NJ,Malenfant RM,Richardson ES

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of effective population size (N(e) ) is based on an elegantly simple idea which, however, rapidly becomes very complex when applied to most real-world situations. In natural populations, spatial and temporal stratifications create different classes of individuals with different vital rates, and this in tur...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Waples RS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results of cross-species amplification in Dactylis glomerata and Lolium perenne of 12 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) isolated from Lolium multiflorum×Festuca glaucescens, 42 SSRs from Festuca arundinacea and two sequence tagged sites from Oryza sativa. We compared the transferability and diversity between D....

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Litrico I,Bech N,Flajoulot S,Cadier D,Talon C,Gibelin C,Barre P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal integration of next-generation sequencing into mainstream research requires re-evaluation of how problems can be reasonably overcome and what questions can be asked. One potential application is the rapid acquisition of genomic information to identify microsatellite loci for evolutionary, population genetic an...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Castoe TA,Poole AW,Gu W,Jason de Koning AP,Daza JM,Smith EN,Pollock DD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary alterations to cis-regulatory sequences are likely to cause adaptive phenotypic complexity, through orchestrating changes in cellular proliferation, identity and communication. For nonmodel organisms with adaptive key innovations, patterns of regulatory evolution have been predominantly limited to targete...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kratochwil CF,Meyer A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing technologies are a proposed solution for accessing the molecular data in historical specimens. However, degraded DNA combined with the computational demands of short-read assemblies has posed significant laboratory and bioinformatics challenges for de novo genome assembly. Linked-read or "sy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Colella JP,Tigano A,MacManes MD

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of 60 microsatellite markers on four species of the fungal complex Microbotryum, causing anther smut of the Caryophyllaceae. Microsatellites were found in four expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries, built from isolates of M. lychnis-dioicae, M. violaceum sensus stricto, M. lagerheimii and M....

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Giraud T,Yockteng R,Marthey S,Chiapello H,Jonot O,Lopez-Villavicencio M,DE Vienne DM,Hood ME,Refregier G,Gendrault-Jacquemard A,Wincker P,Dossat C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial signature of microevolutionary processes structuring genetic variation may play an important role in the detection of loci under selection. However, the spatial location of samples has not yet been used to quantify this. Here, we present a new two-step method of spatial outlier detection at the individual ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wagner HH,Chávez-Pesqueira M,Forester BR

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new model to make use of georeferenced genetic data for inferring the location and shape of a hybrid zone. The model output includes the posterior distribution of a parameter that quantifies the width of the hybrid zone. The model proposed is implemented in the GUI and command-line versions of the Genelan...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Guedj B,Guillot G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to detect the identity of a sample obtained from its environment is a cornerstone of molecular ecological research. Thanks to the falling price of shotgun sequencing, genome skimming, the acquisition of short reads spread across the genome at low coverage, is emerging as an alternative to traditional barco...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Rachtman E,Balaban M,Bafna V,Mirarab S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic technologies continue to shed light on important ecological and evolutionary questions. Nonetheless, these new tools are applied disproportionately in a small fraction of global biodiversity, partly because of technical challenges to studying highly diverse taxa that occur in low abundances in an environment (...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Cassin-Sackett L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the five subspecies of the western big-eared bat, Corynorhinus townsendii, are listed as federally endangered with the remaining three being of conservation concern. Knowing the degree of connectivity among populations would aid in the establishment of sound conservation and management plans for this taxon. For...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Piaggio AJ,Miller KE,Matocq MD,Perkins SL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sourced from faeces is notoriously less reliable than that from tissue. Hence, understanding whether faecal pellet quality varies within faecal piles may be important for sample selection. We hypothesized that the order in which faecal pellets are deposited may influence microsatellite polymerase chain reaction (P...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Walker FM,Horsup A,Taylor AC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00